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Shareholder Voting Trends (2018-2022)

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The report is accompanied by a Live Dashboard , which contains the most current figures and enables data cuts by market index, business sectors, and company size groups. Please refer to the dashboard for the most recent data.

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Do Activists Beat the Market?

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Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. This post is based on a Lazard memorandum by Ms.

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Do Equity Markets Care About Income Inequality? Evidence from Pay Ratio Disclosure

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financial markets and shareholders assess the dispersion in pay between a firm’s top executives and rank-and-file employees. publicly traded companies to report the ratio between CEO pay and median worker pay for the first time in 2018. firms that reported their pay ratios for the first time in 2018 is 145, while the median is 65.

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Dissecting the Long-Term Performance of the Chinese Stock Market

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The Chinese stock market started in 1990 with the establishment of two domestic stock exchanges (the “A share” market): the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE hereafter) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The A share market is the second largest in the world in terms of total market capitalization, trailing only the US equity markets.

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

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The plan offers Musk the opportunity to secure 12 total tranches of options, each representing 1% of Tesla’s total outstanding shares as of January 21, 2018. He claims that Tesla, Inc.’s s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Elon Musk a performance-based equity-compensation plan. With a $55.8 billion maximum value and $2.6

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EU Taxonomy and the Future of Reporting

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While the period up to 2018 was marked by an absence of ESG and sustainability focused regulatory pressure, in the period since, there have been efforts across the globe to ensure investors, financiers and companies pursue more sustainable business practices.

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The Corporate Investment Benefits of Mutual Fund Dual Holdings

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corporate bond market, holding approximately $1.5 As illustrated in Figure 1, among firms with mutual fund equity ownership and outstanding bonds, the percentage of firms with dual holdings increased from 38% in 2008 to 58% in 2018, and firm-level mutual fund dual holding intensity (MFDH) increased threefold. more…)